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PHCENIX EECLINATA. 
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PICTURES OF PALM TREES. 
PHCENIX EECLINATA. 
*E have here an ornamental Palm, closely related to that which produces 
the well-known Date, so largely imported from the East in the form of 
a dried fruit. The date-bearing Phoenix dactylifera is, however, a much 
taller tree, growing from 40 ft. to 80 ft. high, while P. reclinata of 
which we here introduce a figure, for which we are indebted to the courtesy 
of Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, is a dwarf palm, the stem, which is erect or 
PHffiNIX reclinata. 
reclinate, reaching only from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in height. The leaves, though less 
beautiful than that of many tropical pinnate-leaved palms, are by no means 
inelegant, being of a lively green colour, gracefully arched, somewhat recurved 
towards their apices, and feathered, as the figure will show, with numerous 
approximate distichous pinnae, 12 in. long, of a lanceolate acuminate figure, and 
pungent at the apex. 
One of the great recommendations of this Palm—which is a native of South 
Africa—from a horticultural point of view, is that it requires only greenhouse 
